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Describe the ways in which the methods of the Suffragists and Suffragettes were different.
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DESCRIBE THE WAYS IN WHICH THE METHODS OF THE SUFFRAGISTS AND SUFFRAGETTES WERE DIFFERENT For women to campaign for being able to vote they were two main organisations involved in trying to make this successful for women. Their names were first the NUWSS were the suffragists group. The NUWSS were formed in 1897. Mrs Millicent Garret Fawcett was its president. Suffragists meant that they preferred to take action by moral force. The name of the other group was the WSPU they were known as the suffragettes. They were members of the Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU). Founded in Manchester in 1903 by the Pankhurst family, the approach was very different from the NUWSS. The suffragettes liked to take action with physical force as well as moral force. Both groups WSPU and NUWSS tried to get succeed in able to vote in different ways. These groups had some legal and illegal...
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